Art ⚜ | Tutorial | How To Use Modes In Sai

Okk I did say at some point I'd do something like this, but I got lazy as hell, so I'm gonna take about modes. This is probably gonna be a semi-long-ish post, but it's mostly examples.
I'll also be using a previous art thing as an example ^^

So a feature that a lot of people ignore is this sexy beast:



With modes, you can make a lot of really awesome effects. You can use them to add a warm/cool effect to your art, or make it more colorful (=w=), or add lighting effects... whatever.

To use a mode (I'm not going to talk about shading using multiply because it's pretty well known + that would need a complete other tutorial haha), you just slap a layer on top of the color layer.



What I use most often are screen, luminescence and overlay.

Below are examples + how to use them.

Spoiler: Luminescence

Luminescence is literally what it sounds like: luminescent. Haha.
It's basically just a really shiny effect that you use for glare or more often, I actually use it for eyes.

Spoiler: Luminescence + Image

Spoiler: Luminescence

There are a LOT of ways to use luminescence but basically it just makes everything look really shiny! =w=

Spoiler: Overlay

I use overlays a lot for a tinge of color + kind of like a more gradual and smooth luminescence. Tbh it's pretty flexible.

Spoiler: Overlay + Image

Spoiler: Overlay

In all honestly, overlays can be used in any way. I dunno. I use it a lot for hair like above.

Spoiler: Screen

Screens are REALLY sexy! I'm not sure how else to describe it aside from, well... it's basically colored lighting effects. How to use them are up to you, but I usually grab my airbrush and just dab it everywhere with whatever colors I want.

Spoiler: Screen + Image

Spoiler: Screen

dab dab dab dab

The best part is that you don't even need to pay close attention to the mode layers. Literally you can be as messy as you want and it blends everything out for you by itself.

Honestly there's so much you can do that I can't fit into this thread. It's really flexible, so tbh this thread is just here to tell you that this shit exists.

So... yeah! Hope this helped someone!

I hate forums formatting...

EDIT: Here are more examples!

Spoiler: How I use luminescence with EYES:

w/ lumi


w/o lumi

Spoiler: Another luminescence / eyes

w/ lumi


w/o lumi

Spoiler: Another screen example:

w/ screen:


w/o screen:

 

Your forum-formatting looks pretty nice, don't worry! :3
Although I haven't used Sai yet, I might try it out; I hope I'll be able to use this tutorial one day >^<

 

I started playing with my monitor's contrast settings, I could hardly see some of the effects :P

 

dat punctuation doe

 

Aaayyy I use the mode tool as well : D
its indeed a sexy beast